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n a it n 13 a n N ia M a El K U a u P E a ci N N H ii u ii ri m 13 IJ isms Now that we nave caugm our breath, so to speak, it is perhaps tim to unlimber our typewriter and try to give Journal readers seme details of our recent trip with the US Navy on "Operation Mariner" imLo the Arctic and our cruise through the Mediterra nian and visits to Sicily and the Italian mainland. Arriving at Quonset Point R I., on the afternoon of Septem ber 15, we were assigned quar ters aboard the USS Benning- When You Think of Think of X-RAY FITTING SHOES METER "For Land's Sake - I Due to the demand for Agricultural Lime, please place your orders as far in advance as possible. P. M. A. Purchase Orders are paid directly to the farmer this year. Price of Lime in Cass County Precincts delivered and spread at 2 ton or more per acre. When less than 2 ton per acre is spread, an additional 25c per ton is charged. 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Optional equipment at moderate extra cost ton, CVA-20, giant aircraft car rier assigned to the Sixth Fleet and named after Bennington; Vt., (site of one of the early bat tles of the Revolution fought on Auguai 16, 1777) along with 16 other newspapermen from the Ninth Naval District with head quarters at Great Lakes, 111. -K .During the day we observed the loading of supplies aboard ship and got some idea of the huge quantities of food and ma terials necessary 'to keep in op eration a crew of some 3,300 of ficers and men making up the ship's crew, flight crews, pilots, staff officers, Admiral's staff and guests that included, besides we newspapermen, several for eign observers from the French, English and Canadian Navies. Soon after going aooard we made the acquaintance of Lt. Jacques Troude, of the French Navy, serving on the Escorteur Somali and stationed at Toulon, France. Lt. Troude' was assigned to the Bennington as an observ er and was a most friendly and informative companion during the next 20 days of the opera tion, finally leaving the ship off the coast of France. He spoke English fluently, telling us he learned the language during the last war after being given duties aboard a troop transport follow ing scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon. Iff g I g a j 1 i i B I 0 p I li a 3,45 1 . 3.80 1 3.00 3.25 3.15 . . 2.75 3.50 4.10 3.85 3.10 1 3.45 -3 Ii i 1 2.80 . . 3.15 pflwsrQQJElrD t K X headquarters for value V.',', V. v.v.v v.v.ss :5S. An avid reader of Time maga zine for the past 10 years, Lt. Troude gave ithis writer several lessons on French- economics and point of view of the aver age Frenchman in relations with American tourists and others permanently stationed in his country. He told us most French men have drawn conclusions that Americans are anti-French and pointed out so many in stances in Time and other American publications that he thought tended to ridicule his country and its people. Lt. Troude admitted an over abundance of Communists in his homeland, but quickly assured us that the percentage was not as high as the vote in . national elections indicated. He stated that thousands of Communist votes cast in those elections werw not for the communist party, but were more of a- protest vote against present government of ficials. He stated most peasants and laborers were hard workers, thrifty and enjoyed few modern conveniences known in this country. He added there was a terrible need for homes in a country that had twice been devastated by war in a period of little over 20 years, that costs were far beyond the reach of most citizens, with cars, refrig erators, radios and TV's un thought of by the average home maker. A condition we. more or ' less verified in our visits to some of these countries. Troude put one question to us that was hard to come up with an answer when we asked-him about; the "Yanks Go Home" at titude we heard and saw occa sionally (but not nearly as often as we anticipated.) He put it to us this way, "If French, Ger man, Italian, or any other coun try r ationed occupation troups in the USA. If they came with their pockets loaded with far more money than your citizens had or ever expected; if they took over the better cafes, en joyed all the luxuries, drove their own cars, then to top it off ran off with your wife or stole your girl friend, would it be pos sible that a few folks in Amer ica might become antagonistic towards their benefactors and wish they would "Go Home." We frankly told him that out side of a few husbands we knew in our community, those friendly occupation troops were likely to wind up in a fight. While on the subject of per sonalities we met aboard, we should tell of our meeting with Chief Petty Officer R. L. Sloan who had us ito dinner aboard the Bennington. Chief Sloan was stationed here in Plattesmouth as recruiting officer during 1947 to '49 with offices in the Gas Company building - and-, often came into The Journal office with requests for publicity; A native of Pawnee City, Nebr., Chief Sloan asked us to give his best to Walt Gleason and "Chick" Ledgeway. He is due for retirement soon and expects to come back to this area to make his home. Another was Capt. Nick Kava kich, head of the Marine squad ron aboard the Baltimore and a graduate of the Plattsmouth high school with the class of 1945. Married to Eleanore Ea ton, a former Plattsmouth girl, the couple make their home in Boston at present 4'Nick" came to this area, he said, in 1944 in the from Pennsylania, just touring from Pennsylvania, just touring Me harvesting and other odd jobs. He finally landed at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sack. The Sacks and Nick took a mutual likinsr for each other and with the latter coming up with a love for Plattsmouth and this part of the States, he decided to I make his home with ithem and finish high school here. He made many friends, married ; a local : girl, saw plenty of action in Ko rea, made his Captaincy, and right now calls Plattsmouth his home town. He , wound up an avid reader of our copies of The Journal and upon our return we came through with a "Gilt" sua scription to Nick aboard 4he USS Cruiser Baltimore you just have to keep nice people like this Nick " Kavakich sold on 1 Plattsmouth. j We had many interesting ex periences during our six weeks, mostly on water, and will try to reveal a few of them in future issues of The Journal as space and time will permit. RRF. . Mrs. Bessie Core Phone 4377 '',, mtm ::::: Good Crowd Hears "The Messiah" A large crowd attended "The Messiah" at the Methodist church Sunday evening. . There were 41 members in the choir from the University of Omaha taking part. Bruce Husch. a local boy had . a .solo part and Jerry also sang in the choir. " t Louisville About 75 members of the Springfield Masonic lodge at tended the guest night banquet at the temple in Springfield Friday evening of last week This is an annual affair to which the members invite their friends for the evening. ' Louisvilla " Daughter Injured In Auto Mishap L. J. Mayfield received word Friday that his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Earl Mayfield, is in the American Fork hospital -at American Fork, Utah, as the re sult of being hit by a car re cently. One ankle was ' broken in two places and the other ankle also fractured. Both ankles are in a cast. Louisvil' - r Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Holmer and family of Gowrie, Iowa, and Philip Rice of Corpus Chrls ti, Texas, were here Thanksgiy ,ing day to have dinner with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Thomas. The post office will remain opent the next 2 Saturday af ternoon, Dec. 12 and 19, to ac commodate patrons who wish to do their Christmas mailing ear ly. This statement was made by Postmaster Henry Davis. l August C. Paulsch who has been in poor health for some time was taken to the Meth odist hosnital in Omaha via the Fusselman ambulance . on Sat urday morning for a general check up.' Mrs. Herbert W. Worthman was taken to the Methodist hos pital in Omaha last week where she underwent major surgery. Louisville Mrs. Mary Group Notes 90th Birthday Mr. and mVs. Grover Bramel and Mr.. : and Mrs. Carson of Omaha came Saturday p.m. to help Mrs. Bramel's mother. Mrs. Mary Group celebrate her 90th birthday. They entertained Mrs. Group and her son Lawrence, at the W.S.C.S. dinner at the Methodist church and then spent the evening at Mrs. Group's home. Louisville - Arnoli Schliefert who has been in the Methodist hospital in Omaha for an operation return ed home Tuesday of last week, feeling much betterr , - Mrs. H. W. Worthman return ed home from the hospital on luesaay. bhe is recovering very well. Mr. and Mrs. Don Barker, Di ane and Linda, of Omaha were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Livingston and daughters. Miss Joan Eager underwent a tonsillectomy at the Lutheran hosital in Omaha, Monday and returned home with her father that evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Weeener drove to Fort Riley, Kans., last Saturday and sent the weekend j with their son Bill, who is in j camp. Bill got a pass as a re- ward for being the second best shot on the rifle range, so they i all had a nice visit. Mr. and Mrs. Frank 'Wilduck were surprised Monday night by visitors from Omaha. They were' Mr. and Mrs. George Wil duck and family including their son n leave from Ft. Riley, Kansas and his friend, Keith Ivey, who was also on leave. Don Derby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Derby, enlisted , in the Marines, Friday at Omaha and was sent to San Diego that eve ning for training. - j Miss Patricia Kittenbrink is expected home the day before I Christmas to spend about a week here, as she will have to be ( back in camp by Jan. 4. She will miss seeing her brother, Jimmie, as he will leave, the week before and be shipped , overseas on the 24th. ' Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilduck spent Sunday in Omaha at the ; home of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Murray. LOUBVLLE School To Let Contracts Soon The Board of Education has received a set of the plans for the new school building and word from the architects say that the tentative date for let- j ting the contract is Jan. 5, 1954. S Louisvuie J O 1111 OllCCildll W11U llOO UCtll with the army in Germany, call ed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sheehan, Thursday evening from Fort Sheridan, 111. He said he expected to be out of the army and home this week. Norman Hutchison stopped at Fort Riley Sunday afternoon and visited a short time with Bill Wegener, who is stationed there. Norman had been visiting his mother and sister and was re turning to Louisville. L. J. Mayfield visited Mrs. Mayfield at the Co xhospital in Omaha Thursday. Amos Hra bik drove his car for him. Misses Ellen Crawford and Marlene Mann of Omaha spent Sunday at the Crawford 'home and attended the prqgram at the Methodist church in the eve ning. The Rebekah Kensington will hold a card party at the I. O. O. F. hall, Dec. 16. The Happy Hour ciub had an evening meeting this time on Friday, at 8:00, at the home of Francis Biggs. Larry Hendrix returned from California Wednesday, where he had been called by the death of his mother. Mrs. J. E. Hen drix. She had not been very well when she had a fall and her heart gave out. Mrs. Mildred Kritenbrink en tertained Mr. and Mrs. Strand of Oakland, Nebr., at dinner SONNY SOUTH r THAR'S ARKE SHOWIN' OFF HIS AG'IN-JUS' LOOK HOW TH'etRLS THOSE WERE THE DAYS THOSE i WRE i tit DAYS- DEEMS OFF MAIN STREET RURAL DELIVERY GOING WEST WITH HOSSFACE HANK By FRANK THOMAS i - A , D1TTUIe niNlNK crArsFrl Hf1f HI 1 H0W WAS H I DOESNTOUR V GOOD W , I QBE WHIZZ tfj Tfcj mi WELL, WELL OV)Ti GOOD MORNIN'. ( (LITTLE RED last Sunday. It was in the na ture of a Christmas celebration for her son Jimmie, as he will not be able to be here on the holiday. He expects to go over seas soon. Mrs. Emma Larsen of Omaha returned home last week after spending a week with Mrs. J. B. Larson and other relatives. Mrs. Lavern Davis and Mrs. Charles Smith took her home. Herbert Eager and Mrs. J. B. Larsen drove to Blair Monday, where they attended the funeral of Charles Graydon. On Tuesday, Dec. 1, the Re bekah Kensington held their Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Christina Nessen with a 1:30 luncheon with Rhoda el- ton as co-hostess. Mrs. H. E. Gess left Wednes day morning for Grand Island, Nebr., for a visit with relatives. Louisville Mrs. Julia Lcnhoff Dies 2t Cleveland Word was received by Louis ville friends of the death of Mrs. Julia Lenhoff of Hampton Bun- day, Dec. 6, at Cleveland, Ohio, where she had made her home for the past 3 years with her daughter. The body will be cremated at her request. Louisville Mrs. Clarence Crawford was shopping and attending to busi- RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. 287 MUSCLES Y DOtfT V0H WORRY, 1 AROUND SON NV - AH DON'T ACT M HIM LIKE THEM OTHER .. G.RUS - AH'LL STICK VJITH VOH- yoa v'.wow am thinks Y vvu f isjict. 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